Republicans take first steps to kill five Obama-era regulations
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House Republicans on Monday began the process of killing five Obama-era rules on corruption, the environment, labor and guns under the first real test of the Congressional Review Act, a law intended to keep regulation in check.
Israel PM Netanyahu to meet with Trump on Feb 15: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with President Donald Trump on Feb. 15 for talks covering a range of security issues, the White House said on Monday.
Obama says disagrees with discrimination based on religion: spokesman
(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Barack Obama is heartened by the political activism he sees across the country and disagrees with discrimination against people based on their religion, a spokesman said on Monday.
Pence, Jordan’s Abdullah discuss Islamic State, Syria, U.S. embassy in Israel: White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Jordan’s King Abdullah on Monday discussed a range of issues from speeding up the fight against Islamic State, the crisis in Syria, and efforts to reach an agreement between Israelis and Palesti…
Pentagon making list of Iraqis who worked alongside U.S. forces after travel ban
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon was creating a list of Iraqis who had worked alongside U.S. troops, which will be passed to agencies implementing President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting entry for people from Iraq and six other Muslim-m…
U.S. will change course on climate policy, says former EPA transition head
LONDON (Reuters) – The United States will switch course on climate change and pull out of a global pact to cut emissions, said Myron Ebell, who headed U.S. President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) transition team until his inaugur…
Trump needs to accept waterboarding is prohibited torture, U.N. specialist says
GENEVA (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump needs to acknowledge that the extreme interrogation technique known as waterboarding is torture and therefore absolutely prohibited, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture said on Monday.
Trump’s heartland voters shrug off global uproar over immigration ban
(This version of the Jan 29 story has been corrected to show former Senate Republican leader Trent Lott is from Mississippi not Missouri)
Emboldened by Trump, some police unions seek to overhaul Obama’s reforms
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – Steve Loomis, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, had a blunt message for Donald Trump during a meeting in September: court-ordered reforms aimed at curbing police abuses in the midwestern city are not working.
U.S. tempers part of Trump travel ban amid big protests, criticism
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s administration on Sunday tempered a key element of his move to ban entry of refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries in the face of mounting criticism even from some prominent Republicans …
